Instructing with a 3rd class

[midlifeflyer]

Someone commented that this rules out private students if CFI has no medical. Although not specifically mentioned in the FIRC, I would opine that if it's an instrument student (no instrument rating yet) and the flight is conducted on an IFR clearance, CFII would need medical then (and IFR currency), as well, but I invite others' input.

Of course he'd need it if they were on an IFR clearance. But he's also need it if they weren't' and thew client was under the hood.

If the FIRC said that a CFI =only= needs a medical when acting as PIC, the instructor made the same unbelievably common mistake of not reading the rule.

Try reading the rule so that you can base questions and answers on what it does say instead of what people think it says.

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(c) Medical certificate.
(1) Except as provided for in paragraph (c)(2) of this section, a person may not act as pilot in command or in any other capacity as a required pilot flight crewmember of an aircraft, under a certificate issued to that person under this part, unless that person has a current and appropriate medical certificate that has been issued under part 67 of this chapter, or other documentation acceptable to the Administrator, which is in that person's physical possession or readily accessible in the aircraft.

(2) A person is not required to meet the requirements of paragraph (c)(1) of this section if that person -

(viii) [Except for a separate glider instruction exception], is exercising the privileges of a flight instructor certificate, provided the person is not acting as pilot in command or as a required pilot flight crewmember;
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[FlyinFife]

Try reading the rule so that you can base questions and answers on what it does say instead of what people think it says.

Your comment is a breath of fresh air. There were alot of opinions being tossed around, and I kept thinking "based on what?" Thanks for providing the proper documentation.